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You are here: Home / Organizing & Resistance / Don't Mourn, Organize / 40 is the new 23

40 is the new 23

by David Anderson|  November 26, 20188:52 pm| 61 Comments

This post is in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2018

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And there goes the last one.

Cox (D) now beating Valadao (R) in #CA21 https://t.co/a4pRehc9CT

— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) November 27, 2018

40 seats on net flipped Blue.

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    PsiFighter37

    November 26, 2018 at 8:57 pm

    Nancy SMASH flipped all 7 targets in her home state. Not bad, not bad…

  2. 2.

    MomSense

    November 26, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    Woohoo!

    Also too WTF was Melania thinking with those handmaiden Christmas trees?!?!?!1

  3. 3.

    Baud

    November 26, 2018 at 8:59 pm

    Nice.

  4. 4.

    Skepticat

    November 26, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    And Poliquin in Maine’s Second District is demanding a hand recount because he doesn’t like the results of ranked-choice voting.

  5. 5.

    TaMara (HFG)

    November 26, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    But, but….the pundits said it wasn’t a blue wave, more like a mist. They couldn’t have been wrong now, could they?

  6. 6.

    trollhattan

    November 26, 2018 at 9:07 pm

    “Hi America, you’re welcome!”

    –California

    p.s. Please send water.

  7. 7.

    Baud

    November 26, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    A hopeful side benefit is that the scale of the win will put some fear into GOP Senators who are up in 2020.

  8. 8.

    Turgidson

    November 26, 2018 at 9:11 pm

    Still disappointed Hunter and Nunes held on and that Audrey Denney didn’t get closer to the upset. But definitely a good result overall.

  9. 9.

    Ohio Mom

    November 26, 2018 at 9:12 pm

    @MomSense: And why in the video of Melania inspecting her atrocious INDOOR red forest is she wearing a coat? Is the White House not warm enough for her? Can’t she get the thermostat turned up?

    She was wearing a coat as she strolled through the White House in last year’s Christmas decorations video too.

    Back to the topic, Very thrilled. I also hope that these extended voting counts, that go on for weeks after Election Day, get lots of publicity and are normalized. I want there to be widespread acceptance that accuracy, not speed, is what we’re going for.

  10. 10.

    MomSense

    November 26, 2018 at 9:16 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    It’s all just so bizarre.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    November 26, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    23 is a prime.

    40 is a choice. Grade A.

  12. 12.

    Achrachno

    November 26, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    @Ohio Mom: Maybe even the Repugs have realized Jimmy Carter was right and we should dress more warmly and reduce energy use.

  13. 13.

    dmsilev

    November 26, 2018 at 9:21 pm

    @MomSense: Better than last year, which seemed to be inspired by some of the darker sets from Pan’s Labyrinth.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    November 26, 2018 at 9:24 pm

    @Ohio Mom

    Expect it is a deliberate move – likely an ironclad directive – to appear as opposite to Michelle Obama’s sleeveless couture as possible.

  15. 15.

    Adam L Silverman

    November 26, 2018 at 9:24 pm

    @Ohio Mom:

    And why in the video of Melania inspecting her atrocious INDOOR red forest is she wearing a coat?

    At least she finally figured out how to put her arms in the sleeves.

  16. 16.

    Achrachno

    November 26, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    I must say I’m disappointed in Kings County. Get with the program guys!

  17. 17.

    A Ghost To Most

    November 26, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    @trollhattan: Sorry, CO is currently refilling its tanks, and is unavailable for requests. We would send weed, but I believe you got that covered.

    Could we help with the raking?

  18. 18.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 26, 2018 at 9:25 pm

    Woohoo!

    How did the balloon-juice victory fund end up doing?

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    November 26, 2018 at 9:27 pm

    @Ohio Mom

    INDOOR red forest

    Was she carrying a gilded rake?

  20. 20.

    B.B.A.

    November 26, 2018 at 9:27 pm

    @Achrachno: what happened in Brooklyn? :P

  21. 21.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 26, 2018 at 9:27 pm

    @Achrachno: It took them a couple of weeks to figure out how the light switches worked, they probably just haven’t figured out the thermostat.

  22. 22.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    November 26, 2018 at 9:28 pm

    Kern County has been red for a long time. The last Demcratic presid3ntial candidate to carry Kern County was Johnson (yes, raven, fuck LBJ). In honor of this conversion, here are Dwight Yoakum and Buck Owens together on The Streets of Bakersfield

  23. 23.

    MomSense

    November 26, 2018 at 9:29 pm

    @dmsilev:

    The Elmo hide, handmaiden cloak murder forest is pretty awful but last year was also terrible?

  24. 24.

    dmsilev

    November 26, 2018 at 9:31 pm

    @MomSense: At least they’re consistent?

  25. 25.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 26, 2018 at 9:31 pm

    @MomSense: say what you will, she has an appropriately apocalyptic decorating sense.

  26. 26.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 26, 2018 at 9:31 pm

    @trollhattan: We’re supposed to get a storm coming through here mid-week, not getting up to your part of the state?

  27. 27.

    A Ghost To Most

    November 26, 2018 at 9:32 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Say what you will about nihilism, at least it’s an ethos.

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    November 26, 2018 at 9:33 pm

    @MomSense

    it’s the accent. Staff thought she was asking to hire an interior desecrator.

  29. 29.

    FlyingToaster

    November 26, 2018 at 9:33 pm

    @MomSense: All the relevant tweets are saying it’s HorrorShowXmasDecorations 2.0.

    I swear to dog, that woman has no taste whatsoever. Fugly decor beyond belief.

  30. 30.

    feebog

    November 26, 2018 at 9:36 pm

    California has 53 congressional districts. Republicans only held 14 of them. We cut that number in half. Pretty awesome.

  31. 31.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 26, 2018 at 9:39 pm

    @MomSense: Slovenian whores don’t think.

  32. 32.

    rikyrah

    November 26, 2018 at 9:40 pm

    @PsiFighter37:
    ????

  33. 33.

    MomSense

    November 26, 2018 at 9:40 pm

    I think Ken Layne nailed it.

    1989 Eastern European luxury hotel full of mob bosses and hookers

  34. 34.

    Achrachno

    November 26, 2018 at 9:41 pm

    @B.B.A.: AOC happened, or so I heard. :-)

  35. 35.

    rikyrah

    November 26, 2018 at 9:41 pm

    @MomSense:
    It takes effort to produce Christmas decorations without soul. Yet, she has done it, two years in a row.??

  36. 36.

    rikyrah

    November 26, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    @PsiFighter37:
    Go Nancy Smash ??

  37. 37.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 26, 2018 at 9:43 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: ya got it backwards.

  38. 38.

    dmsilev

    November 26, 2018 at 9:43 pm

    @feebog: Sometime soon, I expect calls to go out to preserve the endangered California Republican. I imagine it would start with radio collar tracking of the remaining free-range specimens[*], but ultimately I think the species will have to be preserved in zoos and maintained through a captive breeding program.

    [*] Duncan Hunter gets a radio anklet.

  39. 39.

    mad citizen

    November 26, 2018 at 9:45 pm

    Funny, before checking in on BJ I was just thinking how little mainstream play “The Blue Wave” has received. Whatever. Next time, “Blue Tsunami!”

  40. 40.

    trollhattan

    November 26, 2018 at 9:45 pm

    @A Ghost To Most:
    We are a raker sanctuary state–all rakers are welcome!

  41. 41.

    Emma

    November 26, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    @MomSense: Ah… it’s a photoshop, folks. Someone even tracked the scene in the show where it was taken from.

    Or is my sense of humor about the Trumps so dead I missed you were joking?

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    November 26, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    Worst Christmas special ever!!!

    America is Great Again!!! pic.twitter.com/fSDMlvU8iM

    — Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) November 27, 2018

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    November 26, 2018 at 9:48 pm

    @feebog:
    Is there a Zeno’s Paradox for CA Republican congressmen? Perhaps at some point we’ll be sending y’all 0.5 Devin Nunes.

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    November 26, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Some wag at LGM has inside poop about Donny’s Military Parade*.

    *Artist’s projection

  45. 45.

    Ladyraxterinok

    November 26, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: The Trumps’ Xmas decors seem like sets for horror movies. Is there any rationale behind them at all??

    I simply fail to see the point.

    In my memory, conservative Christmas trees always have a star at the top of the tree. And WHERE IS THE MANGER SCENE? It’s either under the tree or on a table or something next to the tree.

    And many of these families have a train set or lighted village scene under the tree.

    Have Franklin Graham. Jim Bakker, John Hagee, …. been asked what THEY think of the Trumps’ Christmas trees?

  46. 46.

    Schlemazel

    November 26, 2018 at 9:52 pm

    @MomSense: she is bringing her favorite dream to life. Rivers of blood flowing down the Walls of the White House. Oceans of Scarlett a tsunami of human claret.

  47. 47.

    Mandalay

    November 26, 2018 at 9:52 pm

    @Turgidson:

    Still disappointed Hunter and Nunes held on…

    While it certainly would have been better for Hunter to lose, his continued presence in Congress still does more harm than good to the Republicans, and the same goes for Chris Collins. I’m doubtful that either of them will complete their terms.

    And in January Nunes will become a complete nobody.

  48. 48.

    Kraux Pas

    November 26, 2018 at 9:59 pm

    @Schlemazel: Maybe she’s depicting the legal bloodbath her husband is about to undergo. It’s possible Melania is trying to act out against the administration by using design choices. Maybe the “I really don’t care” jacket was her statement on official White House policy.

  49. 49.

    Shana

    November 26, 2018 at 10:32 pm

    @Ohio Mom: I thought that was weird too, but then I noticed that it seems she’s walking along the outdoor colonnade that runs outside the Oval to another part of the White House. Although she did seem to have her coat and gloves on while walking through the rest of the WH.

  50. 50.

    H.E.Wolf

    November 26, 2018 at 10:56 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    How did the balloon-juice victory fund end up doing?

    I’ve been keeping a list of BJ victory-fund victories:

    [1st Balloon Juice group]
    Colin Allred TX-32
    Cindy Axne IA-03
    Anthony Brindisi NY-22
    Sean Casten IL-06
    Gil Cisneros CA-39
    Angie Craig MN-02
    Jason Crow CO-06
    Sharice Davids KS-03
    Antonio Delgado NY-19
    Abby Finkenauer IA-01
    Lizzie Pannill Fletcher TX-07
    Jared Golden ME-02
    Josh Harder CA-10
    Katie Hill CA-25
    Andy Kim NJ-03
    Ann Kirkpatrick AZ-02
    Conor Lamb PA-17
    Mike Levin CA-49
    Elaine Luria VA-02
    Tom Malinowski NJ-07
    Lizzie Pannill Fletcher TX-07
    Dean Phillips MN 03
    Katie Porter CA-45
    Harley Rouda CA-48
    Kim Schrier WA-08
    Mikie Sherrill NJ-11
    Elissa Slotkin MI-08
    Abigail Spanberger VA-07
    Haley Stevens MI-11
    Xochitl Torres Small NM-02
    Jennifer Wexton VA-10
    Susan Wild PA-07

    [2nd Balloon Juice group]
    Jahana Hayes CT-05
    Ben McAdams UT-04
    Lucy McBath GA-06
    Greg Stanton AZ-09
    Lauren Underwood IL-14
    (Antonio Delgado & Kim Schrier were in both 1st and 2nd group)

    [3rd Balloon Juice group]
    Joe Cunningham SC-01
    Kendra Horn OK-05
    * * *

  51. 51.

    Mnemosyne

    November 26, 2018 at 10:58 pm

    @Emma:

    There really are red trees in the White House. They are not Photoshopped. You can watch the official video unveiling, if you have the stomach for it.

    They are not the only trees, but they’re very prominent.

  52. 52.

    Mike in NC

    November 26, 2018 at 11:02 pm

    40 seats = Stable Genius winning!

  53. 53.

    Ohio Mom

    November 26, 2018 at 11:03 pm

    @Shana: I’m pretty sure I saw windows on both sides of the hallway in the video, and Melania keeps her coat on during the rest of her wandering through the White House winter wonderland.

    I rewatched last year’s video and she’s wearing a coat (draped over her shoulders, natch) in many of the scenes, including during a visit to the kitchen where the pastry chefs are baking cookies. It isn’t warm in a room with giant ovens roaring away?
    The rest of the time she is wearing a big fuzzy sweater.

    The other weird aspect of the videos is that Melania roams the White House in perfect solitude, except when she is consulting with staff decorators and chefs. Hardly conveys the sense that Christmas is a family holiday — or that the White House is a busy place.

    How is your mother-in-law doing? Still holding on?

  54. 54.

    Emma

    November 26, 2018 at 11:05 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Eeek. I saw a photoshop with images of handmaid’s tale costumes where the trees would be and I assumed… *scurries off to look* OH JESUS MY EYES. MY RETINAS ARE FALLING OFF!

  55. 55.

    feebog

    November 26, 2018 at 11:22 pm

    @dmsilev:

    dmsilev for the win. Thanks, I laughed so hard tears came to my eyes.

  56. 56.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    November 26, 2018 at 11:23 pm

    And another one gone, and another one gone
    Another one bites the dust
    Hey, I’m gonna get you, too
    Another one bites the dust

  57. 57.

    Mike in DC

    November 26, 2018 at 11:54 pm

    So, in addition to defending these seats in 2020, we can target the three seats the Rs flipped, plus about 50 we didn’t get this time. In 2008 we grabbed another 20 seats. The Senate will be the big prize on the “undercard”, but the more we can pad our majority in 2020, the better we can withstand a first midterm under a D president.

  58. 58.

    sukabi

    November 27, 2018 at 12:23 am

    @Ohio Mom: I think she’s creating Dante’s circles of hell…last year was bleak and desolate, this year we’re getting closer to the flaming pit…

  59. 59.

    Martin

    November 27, 2018 at 12:33 am

    California flipped 7 seats. Republicans held 14 of the 53 house seats here, and now they have 7 to Democrats 46. And I’m assuming we’ll have a special election in CA-50 before 2020.

  60. 60.

    SectionH

    November 27, 2018 at 12:52 am

    @Turgidson: V. late reply, but although Ammar lost vs. Duncan Hunter, he also had coat-tails. Sam Abed (the RW asshole mayor of Escondido the entire time I lived there) LOST his bid for a third term.
    https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-escondido-abed-how-20181116-story.html

    Sorry, no actual formatting buttons. But that gave us some consolation. And like Beto, I don’t think that guy is going away.

  61. 61.

    Viva BrisVegas

    November 27, 2018 at 1:35 am

    @Mike in NC:

    All that gerrymandering and voter suppression by Republicans paid off, otherwise it would have been 60+ seats.

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